Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Winter Poems

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 123

The queens have a mind of winter in this showcase of iconically cold poems. Ice, ice, baby!

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Read "Those Winter Sundays" or listen to Robert Hayden read it here. Read more about A Ballad of Remembrance.

Read Robert Frost's poem "Birches." Frost reads it (audio only) here (~3 minutes). 

You can read "More" by Marie Howe here.

Watch a sock puppet read Timothy Liu's poem "Winter" -- because like why not? Poetry is for puppets, too, girl. Or read the text of it here. 

Read Jennifer Chang's "The World."

Here is Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter."

Read "Paul Revere's Ride" here